EcoTalks: What's the difference between 'climate change' and 'global warming'?

If you listen to the news, you’ll hear the terms ‘climate change’, ‘global warming’ and ‘climate crisis’ quite a lot these days. However, a quick scan of how large institutions like the space exploration agency NASA or the United Nations talk about climate matters, shows that there is a lot in a name. 

The term ‘Global Warming’ may be the most popular term. But this is changing, in part because it doesn’t cover the extent of what is happening. The term became popular in 1988 after a NASA scientist, James E. Hansen, addressed Congress about climate, and talked specifically about one aspect, namely ‘global warming’. But, even at the time, scientists would call the general phenomenon ‘global change’.

What about now? Climate change, climate crisis, global warming—what do they mean and are they interchangeable?  That’s what energy and climate expert Christophe Murroccu from Luxembourg climate activist group Mouvement Ecologique is going to explain in this episode of EcoTalks.